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Lots of good news at the moment!

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FrugiFan · 21/07/2020 15:57

www.bbc.com/news/health-53467022
A trial of a drug which could reduce ICU admission by 79%, and is already in use for other things so doesnt need human trials for side effects etc.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53469839
Promising news about one of the many vaccines in production.

Hospital admissions have not increased, more than 2 weeks after pubs and restaurants reopened.

Lots of reasons to think positive at the moment

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MarcelineMissouri · 02/08/2020 23:57

90 minute flu and cv tests to be introduced in hospitals and care homes starting from next week!

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/coronavirus-flu-90-minute-test-winter-fight-covid-19-a9650401.html

tobee · 03/08/2020 02:19

Hope it does get rapidly deployed and works. Been waiting for something similar

tobee · 03/08/2020 02:20

Virus fighter sounds a great profession @2020CanDoOne

Jrobhatch29 · 03/08/2020 07:24

That is brilliant about the 90 minute test! I had a test done when I got to hospital in labour and didn't get the results back until 24 hours later when I was already home. I remember thinking if I did have it I would have exposed so many staff and other patients on the recovery ward. So this is really positive news!

MarshaBradyo · 03/08/2020 07:31

Would be great for schools. Hope they get enough up and running.

ChristmasinJune · 03/08/2020 07:34

Just came on to post about the new tests, but you beat me to it . This is great news.... especially the small "stapler sized" machine that can apparently analyse 96 tests an hour. They could have these in care homes and schools to cut down the spread. I really think these will be a massive help in controlling the spread.

stayathomer · 03/08/2020 07:38

Got diagnosed yesterday, dh has to bring the kids down to be tested on his own today and I have to stay away from everyone for two weeks. Sorry to be the gloomy one. It is good they're figuring out all this stuff, I wouldn't wish this on anyone

MarshaBradyo · 03/08/2020 08:12

Does any other country have such a fast test?

It’s very good. I just hope they can get numbers used really high.

Yetiyoga · 03/08/2020 08:13

Absolutely great news about the new tests! We need something quick and i really hope they will be able to mass produce it sooner!

I have a question though, if the incubation period is 14 days, how would testing everyone been in contact help? They'd still need to isolate wouldnt they?

askmehowiknow · 03/08/2020 08:22

I read yesterday that up to 50% of us may have natural (T cell) immunity to Covid. This was based on blood samples many years pre pandemic.

Will try and find the link

MarshaBradyo · 03/08/2020 08:22

It’s also good local response is now happening.

Hearing about Liverpool on R4 - increased testing, some events cancelled, visiting reduced. Businesses open.

MarshaBradyo · 03/08/2020 08:26

The best thing re the rest is that they can be administered by anyone without technological ability. Better be in schools, they keep asking on R4 but usual politician answer.

MarshaBradyo · 03/08/2020 08:41

Test not rest

ChristmasinJune · 03/08/2020 14:31

@MarshaBradyo

It’s also good local response is now happening.

Hearing about Liverpool on R4 - increased testing, some events cancelled, visiting reduced. Businesses open.

I think hope that this will increasingly be the case, nobody wants to be next on the Govt's "watch" list so every area is being proactive in keeping their own figures down.

DebLou47 · 03/08/2020 14:48

@stayathomer

Oh no how are you feeling ?

stayathomer · 03/08/2020 19:27

DebLou47
The most tired I've ever been, as in if I sit up in bed and talk for a while my heart starts hammering and I have to lie back down. Chest yesterday and this morning felt like someone had metal plate on it and was breathless (not hospital breathless but not nice) but thats happening less and less over the day so I'm hoping that's a good sign! All other symptoms have gone so crossing everything

lifeafter50 · 03/08/2020 19:44

90 min test is best news.
And they do not need a specialist so school nurse could administer. So if s child had symptoms, send to nurse-if positive goes home/of negative goes back to class. And no isolation nonsense -just go home of positive. There are do many people who are asymptomatic that it woudn't make sense to isolate everyone else just on case.

Letseatgrandma · 03/08/2020 19:50

@lifeafter50

90 min test is best news. And they do not need a specialist so school nurse could administer. So if s child had symptoms, send to nurse-if positive goes home/of negative goes back to class. And no isolation nonsense -just go home of positive. There are do many people who are asymptomatic that it woudn't make sense to isolate everyone else just on case.

This would be perfect, but may not be as simple as it sounds.

My area may be unusual, but we have one school nurse for the whole area-covering goodness knows how many schools. She is only part time and is off on long-term sick and hasn’t been replaced.

It might be better in other areas, but I’m guessing even if patches of schools have access to a full time school nurse, he/she will be very thinly stretched across large numbers of schools and it would be quicker for parents to take their child to visit a testing centre.

KitKatastrophe · 03/08/2020 21:21

@lifeafter50

90 min test is best news. And they do not need a specialist so school nurse could administer. So if s child had symptoms, send to nurse-if positive goes home/of negative goes back to class. And no isolation nonsense -just go home of positive. There are do many people who are asymptomatic that it woudn't make sense to isolate everyone else just on case.

I thought this too. It is (as far as I understand) just a blood prick test. Surely schools have to have someone trained to do this in case of kids with diabetes needing to do a blood sugar test, even if it's just an admin assistant with a first aid certificate and the appropriate training? If they could get one person on each school trained to use the machine, it would make the whole thing so much easier. Isolate that one kid in some sort of booth for 2 hours while the test works and then either send them home or back to class.

tobee · 03/08/2020 21:33

I believe that they said non specialist people can easily be trained? So a school nurse is not the only person who could do it.

DebLou47 · 03/08/2020 23:03

@stayathomer

DebLou47 The most tired I've ever been, as in if I sit up in bed and talk for a while my heart starts hammering and I have to lie back down. Chest yesterday and this morning felt like someone had metal plate on it and was breathless (not hospital breathless but not nice) but thats happening less and less over the day so I'm hoping that's a good sign! All other symptoms have gone so crossing everything

Hope you feel better soon I had the same symptoms in March. Xxxxx rest up x

tobee · 04/08/2020 00:11

Did anyone post this earlier on here?

apple.news/AmqSVmoUvS162Z1CqQ6C56w

Drug doing well in trials

stayathomer · 04/08/2020 23:02

DebLou47 thank you, hope you're keeping well

ChristmasinJune · 04/08/2020 23:15

@tobee

Did anyone post this earlier on here?

apple.news/AmqSVmoUvS162Z1CqQ6C56w

Drug doing well in trials

That's potentially great news! Articles like this one really give me hope. Thanks for posting.

blametheparents · 05/08/2020 08:54

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53656852

This is a good article

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